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kaiser
Trad climber
squamish
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Mar 25, 2019 - 07:39pm PT
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love the p-car that belonged to JJ
this one is mine
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 29, 2019 - 01:35pm PT
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A lot of the old school TV dicks had a distinctive ride.
"Don't drive no Studebaker, sho nuff."
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johntp
Trad climber
Punter
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Mar 29, 2019 - 04:17pm PT
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1966 Mustang fastback from Spenser For Hire. His was red.
Sweet. 66 fastbacks are rad! Ran into a kid the other day at a gas station. Was driving a 68 mustang GT. Needed some work but was pretty cherry. He was maybe 21? Had a hot girlfriend with him. Reminded me of me BITD when I had hair.
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Nutty
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Mar 31, 2019 - 10:44am PT
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The 1970's were good Roy!
Bob my neighbor growing up was a film editor and he owned one of the extra green Mustang's used in Bullitt!
Edit: Post # 327!
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2019 - 05:27pm PT
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I'm experiencing brain fade. There were private emails exchanged about attending a vintage event in Colorado, IIRC, but I can't find the email. Was it you Tarbuster? Anyway, if you could contact me I'd like some info on it and to talk to you about it. The offer was that I drive...
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2019 - 09:29pm PT
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Hey Tarbuster, sent you an email. Looks pretty doable.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Jack and I designed and built Nebulous Theorem III in 92-93. Last August at the beginning of Speed Week he called me all excited to tell me on the down run his partner was running a 4 liter turbo engine and ran over 380 mph. On the return run they upped the boost and ran high 380’s through the timing trap and was clocked at 398 through the final 1/4 mike. The two way average was 384.7 mph shattering the existing record by 50 mph and making it the worlds fastest gasoline powered car.
Not bad for a 25 year old low budget build
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 09:17am PT
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As seen in LaLa Land yesterday...
Whaddya think, $150K?
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2019 - 10:08am PT
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^^^^ tolman_paul. Wow. Do I see two front wheels under there? Can you give any details about the machine? Did you do wind tunnel work or just wing it?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 10:20am PT
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This morning:
moi:
“See that blue car?”
la femme:
“Yeah, what about it?”
See what I have to put up with? 😫
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 11, 2019 - 12:13pm PT
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Detail from the Janis Joplin Porsche:
And no, Reilly, were I so endowed, I would not pay 150 K dollars for a 356!
And yes, we feel your pain vis-à-vis the spousal rift separating your better half from the forlorn petrol head sequestered deep within thouest cavernous heart.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Apr 11, 2019 - 12:27pm PT
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^^^^ tolman_paul. Wow. Do I see two front wheels under there? Can you give any details about the machine? Did you do wind tunnel work or just wing it?
I think Jack is the most natural engineer I've had the fortune to know, and his formal education stopped at 8th grade. He's 83 and still building cars and motorcycles.
As he explains it, "Nebulous Theorem means theories made valid by results." Given the number of records he's set, as I recall Nebulous II has somewhere around 20+ or perhaps 30 records at Bonneville and El Mirage, and it's one of ~10 land speed vehicles he's built in the past 30 years his Nebulous Theorems have been made valid by results. A long way of saying, no wind tunnel testing. The design criteria was to make the car as narrow and low as possible. I forget the exact dimensions but somewhere between 24 and 28" wide and the same on height. I think the length is 28'. I came up the idea of the staggered front wheels as a means of making the front as narrow as possible.
Trick flat head with reverse flow heads
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 11, 2019 - 12:39pm PT
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Damn, Tolman Paul,
That dual four into one header/exhaust setup is a thing of brutish beauty!
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'66-68 fastback Mustang (Make it a Shelby GT 350)
Let us know!